Everly is a low budget Grindhouse type exploitation film with a bizarre Christmas theme and Salma Hayek that keeps it watchable despite its inherent nastiness and nonsense scenes.
Everly (Salma Hayek) is a prostitute turned mistress a brutal gangster Taiko (Hiroyuki Watanabe) who has discovered that she wants to escape and has been working with the police to bring him down.
He has sent his enforcers to gang rape her, torture and then kill her. The film opens just after these scenes as an apparent naked Hayek locks herself in a bathroom and retrieves a hidden gun and starts blasting away.
However leaving her apartment is far from easy as Taiko sends more people in and places a bounty on her. This leads to more video game type action scenes. There is some dark humour such as an attack dog who likes to play fetch even the ball turns out to be a grenade.
At one point a sadist turns up with his bottle of various chemicals to torture Everly who after the initial scenes calls over her mother and daughter to the apartment complex, the same one swarming with bad guys!
This is a sleazy film, badly written and ineptly directed. But for Salma Hayek this would be an epic turkey.
Everly (Salma Hayek) is a prostitute turned mistress a brutal gangster Taiko (Hiroyuki Watanabe) who has discovered that she wants to escape and has been working with the police to bring him down.
He has sent his enforcers to gang rape her, torture and then kill her. The film opens just after these scenes as an apparent naked Hayek locks herself in a bathroom and retrieves a hidden gun and starts blasting away.
However leaving her apartment is far from easy as Taiko sends more people in and places a bounty on her. This leads to more video game type action scenes. There is some dark humour such as an attack dog who likes to play fetch even the ball turns out to be a grenade.
At one point a sadist turns up with his bottle of various chemicals to torture Everly who after the initial scenes calls over her mother and daughter to the apartment complex, the same one swarming with bad guys!
This is a sleazy film, badly written and ineptly directed. But for Salma Hayek this would be an epic turkey.